Day 4 . . . third period

THIRD PERIOD:
Gotta love how the Windsor guys come out and the starters all get down and stretch along the boards near their bench. . . . Calgary needs to win some faceoffs and get some goaltending. . . . Windsor ace Taylor Hall picks D Giffen Nyren’s pocket just inside the Calgary line, then goes in and slides one between G Martin Jones’ legs. . . . The period is 12 seconds old. . . . Nyren was the last man back and you know what they say about that. But the Hitmen know he’s a high-risk, high-reward kind of guy and they’re more than prepared to live with that. . . . Windsor’s up 4-2 and Hall has one hand on the tournament’s MVP award. . . . He has four goals in the tournament. . . . Maybe Hall knows that Edmonton Oilers president Kevin Lowe, GM Steve Tambellini, head scout Stu MacGregor and scout Bob Brown are here tonight. . . . D Zak Stebner hits Hall along the wall in the Calgary zone and the Windsor star makes his way slowly to the bench. . . . Hall is out there again. Now F Adam Henrique tips one through Jones and Nyren fishes it off the goal line and out of danger. . . . There’s the reward part of his game. . . . Calgary gets nabbed with too many men. . . . A goal here for Windsor and this one is over. . . . F Zack Kassian bumps Jones and he’s talking to referee Matt Kirk about it. . . . Nyren got stapled by Kassian and Nyren is favouring the right arm again. . . . This one is about over. Hall’s early third-period goal seems to have taken the sting out of the Hitmen. . . . Give the stars to Windsor G Philipp Grubauer, especially for his play in the first period, Hall and Bubnick. . . . Windsor is 2-0 and on its way to Sunday’s final, with a slight detour to play the Moncton Wildcats (0-2) on Tuesday. . . . The Hitmen (1-1) are back against the Brandon Wheat Kings (1-1) on Wednesday in what may well be a semifinal preview. . . . The 50/50 winner goes home with $13,215. . . . Attendance is 5,201. . . . Like a weak merlot, this game didn’t have near the robustness I expected. Perhaps the two early Windsor goals put out Calgary’s fire. . . . And now it’s 5-2 with 3:04 to play. . . . The Spitfires have done nothing to dissuade anyone from thinking they are the best team here. . . . Calgary might play the ‘what if’ game, as in ‘What if Jones hadn’t given up the two soft goals?’ . . . But he did and, in the end, Windsor was better by at least three goals. . . . Hey, there’s Brandon GM/head coach Kelly McCrimmon in a box and he’s seated alongside former Moose Jaw Warriors GM Chad Lang. Hmm, might Lang be the next GM of the Brandon Wheat Kings, which would allow McCrimmon to focus on coaching? . . . Hey, just kidding. . . . Moncton’s Marc Cantin just took a hard hit from Ian Schultz and may have hit his face on the glass. He’s going to the dressing room. Might be a chiclet problem there. . . . The more I see of the scoreclock in this place the better I think it is. Right, Kelowna? . . . Jones is on the bench, but, unfortunately for Calgary, it is only allowed to replace him with one skater. . . . There’s F Adam Wallace with the empty-netter and now it’s 6-2. . . . Windsor has won twice and outscored its opposition 15-5. . . . And now Wallace is into it with F Rigby Burgart in the neutral zone. . . . It’s a 6-2 final and Windsor has a 37-27 edge in shots.